Toni Morrison

Banning "Beloved" Won't Help Protect Kids, But it Will Help Sanitize Racism

by Farah Jasmine Griffin

It's worthwhile to consider Morrison's characterization of censoring Huck Finn as a “purist and yet elementary kind of censorship designed to appease adults rather than educate children.”

Toni Morrison's Vision of Justice Was an Ethos of Care

by Farah Jasmine Griffin

"What does justice look like for centuries of systemic abuse and violence enacted by a society built upon withholding justice from Black people? In all of her novels Toni Morrison contemplates the nature and practice of justice."

How a Mass Suicide by Slaves Caused the Legend of the Flying African to Take Off

by Thomas Hallock

A major trope of African American folklore converted an ill-fated effort at escape into a tale of freedom. Though the "flying Africans" story has been told and recorded throughout the African diaspora in the Americas, St. Simons Island, Georgia, is the home of the myth. 

Toni Morrison and the ‘Human Project’

by Robert Greene II

Through her novels and essays, Morrison helped inspire a generation of writers to reckon with American history.

Toni Morrison’s Radical Vision of Otherness

by Nell Irvin Painter

The history of racism and exclusion in the United States is the history of whiteness.